2015 Miami, 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation (May 15) “The Theory of Practice: Practical Philosophy, Cultures of Conservation and the Aesthetics of Change,” Opening Session. Reviewed by Kimi Taira.

2015 Providence,Brown University, Jenks Society (May 7) “On the Relative Duration of the Impermanent and the Aesthetics of Change in Museums” presentation on the occasion of Lost Museums: A Symposium on the Ephemerality and Afterlives of Museums and Collections.

2015New York, College Art Association 103rd Annual Conference, New York (February 11) presentation “Fluxus: What’s the Matter?” in the panel Preserving the Artistic Legacies of the 1960s and 1970s.

2014 Glasgow, University of Glasgow and The Glasgow School of Arts (December 2). “The Aesthetics of Change: On the Relative Durations of the Impermanent” opening keynote on the occasion of the conference Authenticity in Transition: Changing Practices in Contemporary Art Making and Conservation.

2013New York, Bard Graduate Center, “On the Aspects of Time, Continuity, Archive and Identity in the Conservation of Multimedia Works of Art,’ presentation on the occasion of the BGC seminar series Work in Progress.

2013Riga, Latvia, Stockholm School of Economics (October), “Versions, Variations, and Variability: Possibilities and Potentialities in the Preservation of Computer-based Art,” conference paper presented at the plenary session RENEW: Media Art Histories; The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. Session chair and moderation of two panels Archiving (A, B).

2013Dubrovnik, Croatia, University of Dubrovnik, Institute of Art History (May), “The Challenge of Multimedia in the Conservation and Conceptualisation of Nam June Paik’s Installations,” conference paper on the occasion of Our Modern: Re-Appropriating Vulnerable 20th century Heritage.

2012 Brisbane, Australia, Gallery of Modern Art (December), “Between Conceptualities and Materialities: Shifting Identities in Nam June Paik’s Installations,” conference paper on the occasion of The Meaning of Materials. 2012 AICCM Paintings Group +20th Century in Paint Symposium.

2012Seoul, South Korea, Nam June Paik Art Center (October), “Rethinking Materiality: Concept, Object and Installation After the Advent of New Media,” conference paper on the occasion of The Gift of Nam June Paik (5).

2012Chicago, School of Art Institute Chicago (May), “Obsolescence and New Media in Five Episodes,” presentation on the occasion of a roundtable discussion Obsolescence and New Media, with Michael Newman, Daniel Quiles, and Channel TWo (Jessica Westbrook and Adam Trowbridge).

2012Boston, Art Institute of Boston (January), “Rethinking Materiality: Concept, Object and Installation in the Age of New Media,” invited lecture.

2012London, University College London, History of Art Department (March), “On the Object of Conservation,” invited lecture.

2011Lisbon, Portugal, Catholic University of Lisbon (September), “Revisiting Materiality: Nam June Paik’s Organic and Technology-based Media in the Tournaments with Time,” conference paper on the occasion of Exposing Exhibitions.

2011Philadelphia, 39th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation (May), “Versions, Variations, and Variability: Ethical Considerations in the Conservation of Computer-based Art; A Study into the Preservation of I/Eye by Bill Spinhoven van Oosten (1993),” conference paper, Electronic Media Group.

2011Santa Barbara, University of California (April), “On the Ethics in the Preservation of Multimedia: Between Conceptuality and Materiality of Nam June Paik Installations,” conference paper on the occasion of Moralities in Arts.

2011Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati, School of Art at the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (April) “Nam June Paik and the Conservation of Video Sculpture,” conclusions and moderation of the conference Nam June Paik and the Video Sculpture.

2011Amsterdam, Netherlands Media Art Institute (currently LIMA) (February), “Virtualization as a Preservation Strategy for Computer-based Artworks,” paper on the occasion of the symposium To Transfer or to Transform and Expert Meeting of the Obsolete Equipment Research Group.

2011London, Courtauld Institute of Art (March), “Revisiting ‘Life Cycles:’ Nam June Paik’s Organic and Technology-based Media in the Tournaments With Time,” paper on the occasion of the Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum The Material Life of Things.

2010Brussels, PACKED (November), “Virtualization as a Preservation Strategy for Computer Based Art: A Study into the Installation I/Eye (1992) by Bill Spinhoven,” presentation on the occasion of the Expert Meeting Obsolete Equipment Research Group (with Jo Ana Morfin).